Frances Guide Questions Bank| Pass Your Adult- Gerontology Acute Care (ANCC AGACNP) Certification Exam | 531 Questions and Answers.

Frances Guide Questions Bank| Pass Your Adult- Gerontology Acute Care (ANCC AGACNP) Certification Exam | 531 Questions and Answers. 1. You want to get more funding for your hospital's Rapid Response Team. How should you present this issue to the committee? a. Stress importance of the team (look up evidence about how team affects outcomes) b. Describe how to improve and expand the team - ANSWER a. stress importance of team 2. What is the best way for the AGACNP to get involved in policy making? a. attend legislative days at the state capitol b. join a hospital committee c. write your local congressman d. review literature and give more in-services - ANSWER b. join a hospital committee 3. What is the best way for the AGACNP to demonstrate and advocate for full scope of practice? a. join a hospital committee b. petition the government c. bill for independent services d. start your own practice - ANSWER c. bill for independent services Frances Guide Questions Bank| Pass Your Adult- Gerontology Acute Care (ANCC AGACNP) Certification Exam | 531 Questions and Answers 4. Which of the following is considered a high acuity role for the AGACNP? a. primary care clinic b. cardiology office c. community health department d. minute clinic - ANSWER b. cardiology office 5. What is the best way to advocate for gay and lesbian population? a. participate in a high state or national level b. join a non-profit advocacy group c. consider lobbying the government d. start at your facility - ANSWER d. start at your facility 6. ANSWERs are worded differently. "decrease bias in healthcare" "create inservises in healthcare" "obtain funding to increase access" 7. Which of the following is most important to evaluate statistical significance when reviewing the literature? a. consider the sample size b. make sure the confidence interval is tight c. see if the p-value is less than the alpha-coefficient d. determine the error rate - ANSWER a. consider the sample size 8. When closing a practice, the NP is required to do all of the following except a. give the patient adequate time to find another provder b. keep all of the patient's records for a minimum of five years c. send a certified letter with a return receipt requested d. provide names of other providers for future care - ANSWER c. send a certified letter with a return receipt requested 9. Which of the following components of an evidenced based research process is the most important for NP to participate in? a. specifying methods of data collection b. formulating the hypothesis c. carefully reviewing the literature d. formulating the research problem - ANSWER d. formulating the research problem 10. A former pt of an NP is writing blog posts, sending emails, and distributing false, accusatory statements about the NP's practice. Which of the following forms of defamation is this? a. libel b. slander - ANSWER a. libel 11. Can you tell the patient's wife, for her protection, that her husband has HIV? - ANSWER No, not without his permission 12. How can the ANCP prepare to get involved in future mass casualty event? - ANSWER Pre enroll in disaster volunteer program 13. An 80 year old male patient with dementia requires long-term care placement. To which funding agency does the patient apply after "spending down" to qualify? - ANSWER Medicaid 14. Your patient is worried about insurance coverage and asks you for advice on Medicaid. You instruct the patient that Medicaid: - ANSWER Pays after insurance and 3rd party payers have paid 15. You are giving a dinner presentation to a group. The pharmaceutical rep calls you the night before and wants you to say that their drug is the only one that workds. What ethical principles does this challenge? - ANSWER Veracity and fidelity 16. Health literacy - ANSWER Average american: 8th grade level 17. Quality assurance - ANSWER A process for evaluating the care of patients using established standards of care to ensure quality 18. CPI - ANSWER Measures structure, processes, and outcomes 19. A root cause analysis of a crisis situation in the ICU identified a lack of clinicianfamily communication as the basis for the resulting adverse outcome. As part of the performance improvement plan, the NP is asked to develop evidence-based policies to establish clinician-family communication standards in the unit. These policies should include: - ANSWER Guidelines for having discussions with family members that are geared toward establishing treatment goals 20. Which clinical scenario does the NP evaluate for a quality improvement process change? - ANSWER An increased incidence of postoperative sternal wound infections.